Curls And Executes a remote script in InDesign

CurlAndExecuteInDesign-local.jsx

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// For InDesign Windows !!!!!                             //
// See https://forums.adobe.com/message/10632451#10632451 //
// By Trevor http://creative-scripts.com    21 Sep 18     //
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// https://gist.github.com/Trevor-/a5de06d41e28936ad72fe3e348bddd33

var remoteCodeUrl, vbs, appleScript, remoteScript;

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// Change to desired URL, must be raw, i.e. no HTML, can use github / patesbin to host make sure to include the /raw part in the link //
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remoteCodeUrl = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Trevor-/55297356e5728f57c2225df16a8e8b0e/raw';


// "aVarFromLocalToRemote" is used in the "remote" script
var aVarFromLocalToRemote = 'A Var From Local To Remote';

if ($.os[0] === 'M') { // [M]ac
    appleScript = "do shell script \"curl 'remoteCodeUrl'\"".replace("remoteCodeUrl", remoteCodeUrl);
    remoteScript = app.doScript(appleScript, ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE);

} else { // [W]indows
    vbs = [
        // Create Shell Object
        'Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")',
        // Execute curl in powershell
        'Set executor = shell.Exec("powershell.exe  -windowstyle hidden Invoke-WebRequest -Uri remoteCodeUrl | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Content")'.replace("remoteCodeUrl", remoteCodeUrl),
        // Capture stdout
        'executor.StdIn.Close',
        // "Forward" result to jsx engine
        'returnValue = executor.StdOut.ReadAll',
    ].join('\n');
    remoteScript = app.doScript(vbs, ScriptLanguage.VISUAL_BASIC);
}

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// Change as per remoteScript      //
// This works for the URL provided //
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// Set script args, these can be fetched by the remote
app.scriptArgs.setValue("scriptArg1", "Hello");
// Set environmental vars
$.setenv("envVar1", "World");
// Run the "remote" script
app.doScript(remoteScript, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT);
// Share functions and vars
// "blah" and "aVarFromRemoteToLocal" are grabbed from the remote script
blah('Demo by: ', aVarFromRemoteToLocal);


/* Some sources
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3028
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36941027/how-to-return-powershell-variable-to-vbscript
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2000455
*/

This shows how to curl and execute a script in InDesign with various methods of sharing vars / functions between the local and remote in both directions.
See https://forums.adobe.com/message/10632451#10632451 for background